tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 08 15:55:22 1996
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Re: tlhIngan Hol chu' jIH
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan Hol chu' jIH
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:56:53 -0400
qaSDI' 96-08-08 02:22:20 EDT, jatlh Qob:
> ~mark, don't forget the new little trick Okrand threw in the {Qo'noS} S27
> card:
>
> {roD 'oHvaD juHqo' ponglu' neH}
>
> Leaving aside the extraneous {roD} and {neH}, we get {'oHvaD juHqo'
ponglu'}.
> It seems reasonable that {jIHvaD *Qob* ponglu'} is a legit construction.
(I
> don't necessarily *like* it as much as {*Qob* 'oH pongwIj'e'}, but there
it
> is.
You had me going for a second! I don't think this works. If the sentence
were ~{'oHvaD *Qo'noS* ponglu'}, then I could believe it. Apparently, the
object of {pong} must be the thing which is being named, not the name itself.
SuStel
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